[PW] Re: ? Last-ditch source question: baby food/steak

[Darla Moore]

Hello,
 I looked in Ron Chernow's; book, Titan:  The Life of John D.
Rockefeller, Sr., but didn't see anything about Rockefeller
eating baby food at the end of his life.  Could this be what
you're looking for?
 "It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to
buy steaks."  Pierre Auguste Renoir.  (Quotation #22324 from Rand
Lindsly's Quotations).
 
Darla Moore
Acquisitions Supervisor
Rollins College, Olin Library
1000 Holt Avenue - 2744
Winter Park, FL 32789
(407) 646-2187

>>> On 10/11/2006 at 2:05 PM, in message
<452D3279.6000805 at stny.rr.com>, Hilary Caws-Elwitt
<sctylibrary at stny.rr.com> wrote:
Hello all,

I'm trying this as court of last call for a question that's been
languishing in 
our new statewide reference service queue for more than a month.
If wombats 
can't find the answer, I'm going to close it!

Patron asked "Who was the rich man that could only eat baby food
but wished he 
could have a steak?" On reference interview added "It may have
been a quote from 
the last days of this person which was really about the moral of
being or 
wanting to be rich. I think it was a famous person, like the
founder of Ford or 
K-Mart or someone like that within the last century of so."

The original librarian said "I have tried everything I could
think of, plus put 
the rest of my department on this, and none of us have been able
to come up with 
anything. Keywords that we've tried have included millionaire,
millionaires, 
rich man, robber baron, baby food, pablum and porridge. As well
as an excursion 
into millionaires with bad and/or poor digestion. I've tried our
print quotation 
books, quotation databases, and parables."

I'm not holding my breath, but if one of you knows or can find
the answer, it 
would be pretty exciting!
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Hilary Caws-Elwitt, Systems & Public Services Librarian
Community Information Network Administrator/Programmer
Susquehanna County Library, 2 Monument Sq, Montrose PA 18801
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